St. Brendan the Navigator Episcopal Church
Our Mission: "To Love, Praise, Welcome and Serve"
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Time to Fall Back!
Daylight Savings Time ends this Sunday at 2 a.m.
Be sure to set your clocks back an hour before going to bed on Saturday.
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Worship this Sunday:
10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist
Pastor Elaine Hewes, presiding
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All services and meetings will be held both in-person and via Zoom unless otherwise designated.
| | | | 5:00 p.m. All Saints' Day service in Meditation Garden | | |
Simmering Pot request for Sunday, November 2
Volunteers are needed to process butternut squash to freeze for a future Simmering Pot soup. This will happen after Coffee Hour. Please phone Jo at 664-4884 if you can help.
| | | | 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. WindowDressers Community Build. Click here to sign up for a shift. | | | | 4:30 p.m. Meditation/Silent Prayer (Zoom) | | | | |
10:30 a.m. Bible Study (Zoom only)
4:00 p.m. No choir practice this week
| | | | 9:00 a.m. Women's breakfast at Stonecutters Kitchen | | | | 10:00 a.m. Holy Eucharist with The Rev. Andrew Stoessel presiding | | | | 5:30 p.m. Pop Up Group Book II. Dinner and conversation at the Danes. "Antigone and her progeny" Space limited. Contact Pete Dane for more information and to sign up. | | Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost | | |
“To You belongs the song of praise, O God”
Sermon given by The Rev. Alice Hildebrand on October 26th.
Click below for the video recording. A text copy is available here.
| | From Patricia: My last morning on Deer Isle,10/23. Feeling deep gratitude for Pastor Elaine, the St Brendan community and the beauty of our island home. I will miss you all and appreciate our dear church community. | | |
Celebrating All Saints Sunday
One of my pastor friends is fond of calling All Saints Day the Church’s “November Easter,” because just as everything in the natural world is dying around us, and on the very day when we take time to remember those in our lives who have died, we dare to declare that death does not have the last word, saying in full voice, “Yet even at the grave we make our song.” It’s an audacious declaration in the face of death; this insistence that by the power of love, death is an entrance into the fullness of God’s presence beyond our ability to imagine this side of the river (giving us voices to sing, despite everything).
I appreciate my pastor friend’s insights and her “Easter” message in the midst of the many reminders of death that face us on All Saints Day. And I hold on to the “Easter promise” she invites us to remember, especially this year as we in the St. Brendan community feel the loss of Stewart Pierson, Susan Wade, Michael Hewes and Lev Sherman (not to mention other beloved friends and family members many of us have lost this year).
As a little “All Saints Day” image for us to hold onto, I offer this photo from my garden; all that’s left amidst the oak leaves that have fallen from the trees surrounding our house… a little “Easter in November” to remind us of what lives at the heart of our faith…
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In the darkness of November
Comes a promise to remember;
Even at the final breath
Love sings her song of “Nevertheless…”
| | | Giving our Priorities Shape (GPS) Action Item | | |
For the remaining weeks of Ordinary Time before the first Sunday of Advent, you are invited to engage more deeply in your “practice” of faith, your heart’s commitment to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and in particular to the call to “Love Thy Neighbor.” There are so many opportunities near and far:
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Sign up for the WindowDressers Build starting November 1
- Simmering Pot – soup making or delivering to recipients on November 24
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Donate blood on November 6 at DIHS, 10-3 PM, sponsored by the Deer Isle High School National Honor Society. Register here for a time slot.
- Connect often with the children in your life
- Consider a donation to Alfred's Box
- Write a letter to a long-lost friend
- Make a phone call to the same
- Share a smile or a kind word with a stranger
- Offer a gesture of forgiveness where needed…
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Our Build has started!
Volunteers are especially needed for Wednesday morning and afternoon, and Thursday. Click below if you can help with one of those shifts.
Lunch and snacks are provided.
If you have a few hours to help any day of the Build, please stop by.
No experience is necessary; training is available when you arrive.
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It’s that time of year again to fill the box in the hall with gifts for the island children.
A list of suggested gifts is on the entryway table and available here. Last year, we filled the box several times. Let’s do it again!
If you have any questions, call Woody Osborne.
| | ICC Thanksgiving Dinner Update - Help Requested | | |
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Jeannie Hatch at Island Community Center thanks us for hosting them for the last few years, but they need a larger space this year. They will be using their facility with the gym as a larger space to set up the deliveries.
They would, however, like volunteers to deliver the meals that morning and people to cook turkeys, potatoes, and/or carrots. You can call Jeannie at 207-367-2735 to volunteer to help.
| | An opportunity to help immigrants | | |
CORRECTION
In last week's Navigator, I wrote a column about immigrants and how the Dean of St. Luke's Cathedral in Portland was using his discretionary fund to pay for legal immigrants applying for a green card at a cost of $500 to seek employment. This fee was instituted this year.
I gave you the wrong last name for the Dean. The correct name and address is The Very Rev. George Stevens, St. Luke's Cathedral, PO Box 4141, Portland, ME 04101. I apologize for the misinformation. The article last week was asking you to make a contribution to help the Dean pay for immigrants' applications for a green card.
Skip Greenlaw
| | Education & Spiritual Development Ministry | | |
"Happy are they who dwell in your house!. . ."
Psalm 84:3
Zoom Meditation/Silent Prayer
Monday at 4:30 p.m.
Readings, poems, and prayers are shared before a period of silence.
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No In-Person Meditation/Silent Prayer at St. Brendan
Wednesday, November 5th due to the WD build
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Bible Study - Zoom Only
Wednesday, November 5th at 10:30 a.m.
Bible Study 101 continues.
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Jackie Wilson – 6
Frances Barbour – 13
Kathy Burton – 15
Julia Walkling – 20
Nancy Greene – 20
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Regina Christianson – 21
John Haley – 21
KC Morrish – 22
Carolyn Mor – 29
Louis Pickens – 30
| | We pray for those in special need: | | |
Harry Vickerson
Helen and Gibbie Nauman
Mimi Gerstell
Agnes and Billy
Barbara K.
Julie and Tom
Gwen Murray
Sally
Beth Kyzer
David
Preston Henderson
Mollie Ann Meserve
Heidi (Jonny's mother)
Tammie and Jason Cox
Tyler Goss
Kate Hallen & Bob Blum
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Judith Jerome
Mimi Maslan
Semantha
Judy
Megan
Bishop Thomas Brown
Naomi
Anne Burton
Hewit
Mary Ann and Terry
Nishah
David Morrish
Corbin
Rebecca
Pam B.
Jaxson
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Heather Corey
Stephen Gill
Bill Scaife
Brent Was
Gary and Wellesley
Mary Lawrence Hicks and family
Nancy Greene
Peter Brown
Seth
Linda Shepard and family
Mary Ann Shaw
Lindsay Bowker
Marcia Scott
Tony Stoneburner
Carol Stoneburner
| | We pray, also, for those who love and care for them. | | |
We continue to hold in prayer those in our community who have recently lost loved ones; among them are the Sherman, Hewes, Putnam, Wright, Clauson/Hewes, Pierson, Wade/Scaife, Dahlen, Stoessel, and Miller/Budd families.
We pray for those struggling with addiction and mental illness and their caregivers.
We pray for all those receiving care through Neighbor Care and for all the relocated residents of the Island Nursing Home and their families.
We pray for the victims of gun violence -- in our cities and towns, in our schools, in our places of worship, and in our homes.
We pray for the victims of the violence of armed conflicts around the world. We pray for those made refugees by the violence of armed conflicts. We pray for the victims of terrorist attacks everywhere.
We pray for all who suffer the effects of domestic violence and the violence of bullying in our schools and workplaces.
We pray for our nation, our president and vice-president, and all elected and appointed leaders.
We pray for all peacemakers and all those who work for justice; may we be found in their ranks.
We pray for all those serving in the armed forces of our country.
We pray for Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury; Hosam, Bishop of Jerusalem; Sean, our Presiding Bishop; and Thomas, our Bishop.
In the Diocesan Cycle of Prayer, we pray for St. Andrew's, Millinocket, and St. Patrick's, Brewer.
In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we pray for the Church of the Province of
West Africa.
On the Island and Peninsula, we pray for the United Methodist Church, Brooksville.
| | | All Saints' Day
Today we celebrate the Feast of All Saints. A central feature of that celebration is Holy Baptism, by which we have become members of the communion of the saints. This is one of the four times during the year when baptism is most appropriately
administered. All of us will join in renewing our baptismal vows.
The term “saint” means “a holy person.” The doctrine of the saints is not that saints are a few exceptional Christians who were holy in themselves; instead, it reminds us that no one can become holy without the indwelling of God’s Holy Spirit. The saints are all those who received the Spirit of God in Baptism. Thus, the festival of All Saints is the celebration of all baptized people, for we have all been given the gift of the Spirit.
The readings today describe the result in the lives of God’s people of the holiness that comes from the Spirit. Daniel’s vision promises that in spite of all that is wrong in the universe, God’s holy people will receive God’s Kingdom forever. Paul reminds us that our ultimate destiny is to share in the glory of all God’s saints.
Luke’s version of the Beatitudes is briefer and more direct than Matthew’s version, with which we are more familiar. They are followed by a list of woes to those who do not live the life of holiness. The call of Jesus to saintliness is a radical call to live lives directed by love toward others. Our liturgical gatherings are meant to be more than a blessing for us who attend; they equip us to lead lives that proclaim the good news of Christ in concrete actions of love and care for others.
Notes on the Sunday Readings and Seasons of the Church Year. Copyright © 2009 by Michael W. Merriman. Church Publishing Incorporated, New York
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Office Hours: Tuesday 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Pastor Elaine Hewes
Tel: 207-479-5651
elaine.hewes@gmail.com
Emergency Contacts:
| | Warden - John Arrison, 207-505-2474 arrison17@gmail.com | | Warden - Allen Downs 207-348-2560 agdowns53@gmail.com | | |
Emily Hawkins - Treasurer
Cindy Beyer - Clerk
Beth Carter
Kassie Grey
George Pazuniak
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